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Will the film be shown at inaccessible cinemas? It beats me how much Hollywood makes and their failure to bother to make their movie theatres accessible. In the UK, local authorities licence this discrimination. Yours for world peace Keith On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:29:59 +0000 , alison slater <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Last week I went to see a (British) preview of the (Norwegian) film Elling. Being reasonably critical of most media representations of disability and impairment I found that this film was entertaining ( in ways which would probably elicit popular appeal ) and dealt with both disability and impairment/effects concerns, avoiding and sometimes challenging some of the stereotypes that are attributed to disabled men. Like any othe media form it had its limitations, e.g. some aspects of 'realism'. However, the audience really seemed to enjoy it, judging by the laughter. I'd be really interested to know what other list members think of it. Alison Wilde -- War makes people ill. -- The island of Gotland belongs to which country? Find out at postmaster.co.uk http://www.postmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/meme/quiz.pl?id=183 ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.